That's A Lovely Accent You Have...New Jersey?

DC Sports Nexus ---- Thursday, December 22, 2011

Friday, Dec 23rd: Washington Caps @ New Jersey Devils (7:00pm)

*HONK HONK HOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK* *Strobe Light*

On Friday night (Christmas Eve Eve) the Capitals will head to New Jersey to face the Devils. The Caps & Devs are close in the standings (who isn't these days) and have been playing at a similar level lately. The Devils won 6 out of their last 8 games and the Caps have won 5 out of 8. Washington is coming off of a win against the Predators where each member of the big 3 (Alex, Alex, Nick) scored a goal.

*HONK HONK HOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK* *Strobe Light*

Back in mid-November the Caps and Devils split a 2 day home & home series, the Caps winning 3-1 in NJ and the Devils winning 3-2 the next night in a shootout in DC. #areuseriousbro

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The Caps will be looking to keep their offense as crisp as it was when they played in the first period on Tuesday night and I would assume that Dale Hunter will be sticking with the hot goaltender Michal Neuvirth. (But who knows)

*HONK HONK HOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK* *Strobe Light*

Last time I was in Jersey I was at a place called Djais. It was like 11am but the place was filled with Jersey Shore type people. Every 1 minute the DJ would cut the song off, play a car horn sound like 10 times, and flash a strobe light, at which point everyone in the bar went absolutely bonkers. Later, like 4 of my friends made out with the same girl. At one point there was a beer bottle in the middle of a circle and people were dancing around it and with it like it was a person. When we stumbled out of the bar it was still daylight...

Lets put another shrimp on the barbie...or at least another win in the standings...

The Origins Of This Blog: Prior to this season I had only watched a handful of hockey games. I never really liked watching hockey and I pretty much hated the NHL. Coming in I knew the basics of the game from playing NHL '94 back in the day, but wasn't really aware of how the game really worked. I didn't know half the penalties, I didn't know that a few teams existed or didn't exist, and I was easily frustrated by many things that happened in the NHL. (Icing, Trapezoids, Biscuits, Twigs, Blue Jackets, Plus/Minus, Goons...AHHHH) However, when my beloved NBA was in danger of being locked out for an entire season, that was my cue to force myself to watch something that I previously semi-despised. That brings us to today. I am now a die hard Capitals fan...I now know a bit about hockey...but I still have a long way to go.